Firstly, congratulations on winning Best Short Fiction at the British Fantasy Awards . What was your reaction to the announcement? I was very surprised to make the short list and grateful to everyone who nominated me. To be honest, it’s not yet sunk in. What was your experience of writing competitions prior to this win? and …
Genre fiction: Is it time to challenge our literary snobbery?
Horror, science fiction and fantasy. Currently there’s a plethora of it on the small and big screen, such as Game of Thrones, Westworld and Arrival. Yet there remains an entrenched literary snobbery when such subject matter is between the covers despite Andrew Michael Hurley’s gothic novel, The Loney, winning the Costa Prize and Kelly Link’s …